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r/shortscarystories 1 day ago therealdocturner The Day The Music Died âWhy donât you just let me in?â âNo.â The world finally got mad enough to blow itself up and everybodyâs gone. Everybody but me and Jesse. Two months come and gone, we been together. I found this house after wanderinâ through what was left. No front door and a nice porch sittinâ on a scorched plain. When I found it, I had a little food left, but itâs long gone now. Jesse showed up the night after. Lookinâ through the open doorway with those red eyes at the only person heâd seen in a couple of years. He kept lickinâ his long teeth. We didnât talk much at first. I guess in the end, we were just too tired to try anything. Two men wastinâ away from starvation and terrible loneliness. The last of our kind. He moved in under the porch and never left. Conversation was next to nothinâ that first night. He was outside the doorway, and I sat inside in one of the rockinâ chairs I found. Iâd rock and heâd pace. It started by singinâ songs out of boredom. Soon enough we got to talkinâ. After the sixth night, I put the other rockinâ chair out on the porch for him just outside the door. We talk and sing till the sun comes up. We look forward to the nights. I met the best friend I ever had at the end of time. Tonightâs our last night. Only one more sunrise for me. âYou look like you could make it through another day.â Heâs eyeballinâ the gun in my lap. He knows Iâve only got one bullet left. âI canât talk you outta this?â âMy belly buttonâs rubbinâ against my backbone. Iâm tired Jesse. You better get under the porch here soon. You can have whatâs left tomorrow night.â âAw. Let me come inside.â âNo. I donât want to go out that way. You need to go. I donât want you to watch.â He turns and I try to raise the gun. The sun is almost up and I want to be ready. My hand starts shakinâ and I drop the damn thing. It bounces out the doorway. Jesse turns back around and picks it up. âGimme the gun, Jesse.â âCome get it.â âYou know Iâm too weak to get outta this chair.â âThen let me come inside.â âI donât wanna go that way, Jesse!â âJust invite me in, will ya?!â I finally break and give him what he wants. He walks in and I wait to feel his teeth in my neck, but he pulls me and my chair onto the porch. He gives me the gun. âGot no interest in goinâ on without ya. This is the last morninâ for both of us.â He sits down next to me and we rock as the sun comes up. He starts singing Don McLeanâs American Pie and I join in. One last joyful noise unto the world never to be heard again.
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